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0 pointsmechanical_fish15y ago0 comments

I think what you're saying is "Google, Just Cut The BS And Give the Gordon Gekko Speech Already":

http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/13/google-net-neutrality/

I am not exactly a starry-eyed admirer of the Gordon Gekkos of the world, but I tend to agree. It would be refreshing if people stopped pretending that these inter-corporate battles had anything to do with either morality or the public good.

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barrkel15y ago

I think that's a very shortsighted and dimwitted way of looking at things. The nebulous things like ideals are what guide people to their longer-term self-interest, their enlightened self-interest, rather than short-termism which hurts them in the longer term.

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